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Pages 324-377 | Published online: 22 Feb 2011
 

Peter Berger, Grace Davie, Effie Fokas, Religious America, Secular Europe? A Theme and Variations. Ashgate, Aldershot, Burlington, 2008, 168 pp., £55.00 (hardback), ISBN: 978–0–7546–5833–7, £16.99 (paper), ISBN: 978–0–7546–6011–8.

James K. Wellman, Evangelical vs. Liberal: The Clash of Christian Cultures in the Pacific Northwest. Oxford University Press, New York, 2008, xv + 328 pp., $99 (hardback), ISBN: 978 0 19 530012 3, $24.95 (paper), ISBN: 978 0 19 530011 6.

Janet Gyatso, Hanna Havnevik, eds., Women in Tibet. Columbia University Press, New York, 2005, xii+436 pp., $85 (cloth), $27.50 (paper), ISBN 0 231 13099 6, ISBN: 0 231 13098 8.

Mara H. Benjamin, Rosenzweig's Bible: Reinventing Scripture for Jewish Modernity. Cambridge University Press, 2009, xi+209 pp., $80 (hardback), ISBN 978 0 521 89526 2.

Ariel Glucklich, The Strides of Vishnu: Hindu Culture in Historical Perspective. New York, Oxford University Press, 2008, xiii + 241 pp., $29.95 (cloth), ISBN 978 01 95 31405 2.

Craig Prentiss, Debating God's Economy: Social Justice in America on the Eve of Vatican II. University Park, PA, Pennsylvania State University Press, 2007, xii + 267 pp., $55 (cloth), ISBN 978 0 271 03341 9.

Kate Cooper and Julia Hillner, eds., Religion, Dynasty, and Patronage in Early Christian Rome, 300–900. New York, Cambridge University Press, 2007, xv+327 pp., $99 (hardback), ISBN 978 0 521 87641 4.

Jeff Wilson, Mourning the Unborn Dead: A Buddhist Ritual Comes to America. New York, Oxford University Press, 2009, viii + 260 pp., $35 (cloth), ISBN 978 0 19 537193 2.

Margit Warburg, Citizens of the World: A History and Sociology of the Baha’is from a Globalisation Perspective. Leiden, Brill, (2006), xxx + 592 pp., $291, €196 (hardback), ISBN 978 90 04 14373 9.

Gideon Bohak, Ancient Jewish Magic: A History. New York, Cambridge University Press, 2008, ix + 483 pp., $135 (hardback), ISBN 978 0 521 87457 1.

Thomas Banchoff, ed., Religious Pluralism, Globalization and World Politics. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2008, x + 348 pp., $99 (hardback), ISBN 978 0 19 532340 5, $24.95 (paper), ISBN 978 0 19 532341 2.

Samira Haj, Reconfiguring Islamic Tradition: Reform, Rationality, and Modernity. Stanford, Stanford University Press, 2008, xii + 284 pp., $35 (cloth), ISBN 978 0 804 75250 3.

Nerina Rustomji, The Garden and the Fire: Heaven and Hell in Islamic Culture. New York, Columbia University Press, 2009, xxii + 201 pp., $50 (cloth), ISBN 978 0 231 14084 3.

Paul Heelas, Spiritualities of Life: New Age Romanticism and Consumptive Capitalism. Wiley‐Blackwell, Malden, MA, 2008, ISBN 978 1 4051 3937 3, $41.95 (paper), xii + 282 pp., $97.95 (hardback), ISBN 978 1 4051 3938 0.

Allan Wallace, Mind in the Balance: Meditation in Science, Buddhism, and Christianity. New York, Columbia University Press 2009, xii + 244 pp., $24.95 (cloth), ISBN 978 0 231 14730 9.

Maria‐Zoe Petropoulou, Animal Sacrifice in Ancient Greek Religion, Judaism, and Christianity, 100 BC to AD 200. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2008, xii + 336 pp., £66 (hardback), ISBN 978 0 19 921854 7.

Martha L. Finch, Dissenting Bodies: Corporealities in Early New England. New York, Columbia University Press, 2010, xiv+274 pp., $45 (cloth), ISBN 978 0 231 13946 5.

Knut A. Jacobsen (Editor‐in‐chief), Helene Basu, Angelika Malinar, Vasudha Narayanan (Associate Editors), Brill's Encyclopedia of Hinduism. Volume I: Religions, Pilgrimages, Deities. Leiden, Boston, Brill, 2009, xliii + 831 pp., $354.00 (cloth), ISBN 978 90 04 17641 6.

Michael Klöcker, Udo Tworuschka, eds., Praktische Religionswissenschaft: Ein Handbuch für Studium und Beruf. Cologne, Weimar, Vienna, Böhlau Verlag 2008, 328 pp., €18.90 (paper), ISBN 978 3 8252 365 1.

Ondina E. González and Justo L. González, eds. Christianity in Latin America: A History. Cambridge, New York, Cambridge University Press, 2008, xii + 331 pp., $25 (paper), ISBN 978 0 521 68192 6, $80 (cloth), ISBN 978–0 521 86329 2.

Fay Botham, Almighty God Created the Races: Christianity, Interracial Marriage and American Law. Chapel Hill, The University of North Carolina Press, 2009, xiii+271 pp., $38 (cloth), ISBN 978 0 8078 3318 6.

Manfred Hutter, Handbuch Bahā'ī: Geschichte ‐ Theologie ‐ Gesellschaftsbezug, Stuttgart, Kohlhammer Verlag, 2009, 230 pp., €22 (paper), ISBN 978 3 17 019421 2.

Charles Goodman, Consequences of Compassion: An Interpretation and Defense of Buddhist Ethics. New York, Oxford University Press, 2009, 264 pp., $74 (hardback), ISBN 13: 978 0 19 537519 0.

Nazila Ghanea, Alan Stephens and Raphael Walden, eds., Does God Believe in Human Rights? Essays on Religion and Human Rights. Leiden, Boston, Brill, 2007, xxii+274 pp., €86/$117 (hardback), ISBN 978 90 04 15254 0.

Ruqayya Yasmine Khan, Self and Secrecy in Early Islam. Columbia, South Carolina, University of South Carolina Press, 2008, xii + 186 pp., $39.95 (cloth), ISBN‐10: 978 1 57003 754 2.

A. Whitney Sanford, Singing Krishna: Sound Becomes Sight in Paramānand's Poetry. Albany, State University of New York Press, 2008, ix+207 pp., $65 (cloth), ISBN 978 0 7914 7395 5, $19.95 (paper), ISBN 978 0 7914 7862 2.

Ivan Strenski, Why Politics Can’t Be Freed From Religion. Oxford, Wiley‐Blackwell, 2010, xi+204 pp., $29.95 (paper), ISBN 978 1 4051 7648 4, $84.95 (hardback), ISBN 978 1 4051 7649 1.

Dagmar Fügmann, Zeitgenössischer Satanismus in Deutschland: Weltbilder und Wertvorstellungen im Satanismus. Marburg, Tectum Verlag, 2009, 394 pp., €29.90, ISBN 978 3 8288 2101 9.

Kreyenbroek, Philip G., Yezidism in Europe. Different Generations Speak about their Religion. (In Collaboration with Z. Kartal, Kh. Omarkhali and Kh. Jindy Rashow). Wiesbaden, Harassowitz, 2009, 246 pp., € 58.00 (paper), ISBN 978–3–447–06060–8.

Einar Thomassen, ed., Canon and Canonicity: The Formation and Use of Scripture. Copenhagen, Museum Tusculanum Press, 2010, 232 pp., $48 (cloth), ISBN 978 87 635 3027 9.

Stephen C. Berkwitz, Julianne Schober, Claudia Brown, eds., Buddhist Manuscript Cultures: Knowledge, Ritual, and Art. London: Routledge, 2009, xviii + 211, $170 (hardback), ISBN: 978 0 415 77616 5, $39.95 (paper) ISBN 978 0 415 59613 8.

Seth D. Kunin, Juggling Identities: Identity and Authenticity Among the Crypto‐Jews. New York, Columbia University Press, 2009, viii+278 pp., $45.00 (cloth), ISBN 978 0 231 14218 2.

Yoshiko Ashiwa and David L. Wank, eds., Making Religion, Making the State: The Politics of Religion in Modern China. Stanford, University of Stanford Press, 2009, x + 294 pp., $70 (cloth), ISBN 978 0 804 75841 3, $24.95 (paper), ISBN 978 0 804 75842 0.

Paul Marshall, Lela Gilbert, Roberta Green‐Ahmanson, eds., Blind Spot: When Journalists Don't Get Religion. New York, Oxford University Press, 2008, xx+220 pp., $99.00 (cloth), $19.95 (paper), ISBN 978 0 19 537437 7

Matthew Avery Sutton, Aimee Semple McPherson and the Resurrection of Christian America. Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 2009, 351 pp., $18.95 (paper), ISBN 978 0 674 03253 8.

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